Volunteers day

Caitlin, Briana, and I left an hour early to go walk to volunteers day. It was at a church off of Park circus/park st. None of knew what the church was called but we all figured... how many churches can there be on Park street in India.
When we got to park street I asked a salesman that was on the street where the closest catholic church was... he pointed me 10 minutes to the left. To be reasurred I also asked a police officer and he pointed me in the same direction saying it's a 10 minute walk and pointed to the church's staple which was visible but certainly didn't look like a 10 minute walk. When we arrived I realized that we just took the biggest detour from sudder street, we took a total U turn and passed sudder street. It was a half an hour walk after already walking to park st. We were at St. Paul's catherdal. Which was AMAZINGLY beautiful! After asking around we realized we were at the completely wrong church. So I asked the preist there, what is the church near Park Street. He told me I need to go to St. Thomas. So we took a taxi to St. Thomas. It's always a hassel trying to take the taxi and this taxi driver wasn't any better. I've became familiar with the streets around sudder and this taxi driver decieded to take me in circles. He took a right turn off of the main metro station road, then a left turn onto the tiniest street that was fully of traffic and than after a couple blocks and minutes he took another left turn and headed back to the metro station street. While he thought he was going to get away with take me in circles, was arguing and yelling at him in the taxi... I told him what street he needed to be on and drew out the circle he was taking me in. He was parshly suprised that I noticed the streets or even know some streets by name and quit his game playing. I told him to just follow where I tell him to go and stop taking his own detours because I was late already. When we arrived he tried to charge me extra for the ride that he already prolonged because of his circles, and than when I showed him his OWN meter chart and the fare for the meter he had nothing to say but when I got out of his car he told me there was a parking fee, because he's in a no parking zone... and that's when I got really irritated. One of the locals that worked at St. Thomas helped me out, he asked what was going on and the taxi driver said i haven't paid (trying to make it sound as if I haven't paid for the fare while at the same time making it sound to me as if I haven't paid the parking fee- which there's no such thing), I took the guy over to the taxi where I left his fare on his seat and pointed to the meter showing the I paid accordingly and he's trying to get me to pay something extra, the guy looked at the taxi driver as if he was a jerk and he laughed it off as if he didn't realize I already paid, and as if he wasn't trying to charge me for a parking fee. After that whole sence we finally arrived at St. Thomas! St. Thomas church is the church Mother Teresa funderal was held in! So I was really happy to be there! It was so beautiful. We got shown around the college there and went and talk to a sister that was in charge there.... sadly we were still at the wrong place! I asked the sister there, if I could just call mother house and ask them what church it was at. When I connected with an MC sister I founded out that it was at Christ the King Church, smaller catholic church off of park circus. the Sister at St. Thomas told us we needed to take a taxi to get there... we were already 45 minutes late and so there was no other way I wanted to get there. So we hoped into another taxi, once again we had some minor problems with the taxi driver trying to double/tripple the taxi fare but it was soon resolved and we were finally at the right place!
When I got up to the room, the International (USA) group was finishing their skit that I missed out on! They were walking up stage and caught notice that I was here! They then announced that their first act finally arrived and rushed me on stage! I was REALLY unprepared and the guitar was really out of tuned. I sat on staged, tuned the guitar as quick as I could with all the noise of the people and the street and played my song, "I thirst, Give till it hurts" The MC sisters loved it and so did the volunteers that was there. There was at least 400 people in the room there last night, 300+ volunteers and many sisters and other guest. I got a lot of compliments on the song I wrote and the MC sister wanted me to come and play it for the rest of the MC sisters the next day (today), which I'm not able to do because I'm leaving in a couple of hours to go travel. One of the volunter wanted to do a video recording of the song while another one that is a Music Art major want to use my song for her project this upcoming spring. It's a very honoring feeling to feel as if the song has touched so many people but the words honestly aren't mine, I feel as if I used many words of our blessed Mother Teresa in my lyrics and just feelings of yearning and thirst of the poor. After getting off stage I also found out we only missed 2 acts and there were plenty more after us. There was some amazing fun skits the Koreans did, Spanish, and French. The Italians did a sing a long contest, while the Spanish invited people up to dance! It was so much fun and very international! I loved it! I got to experience a little of every culture.
We watched a Mother Teresa video on a projector, the video is called Mother Teresa, the Legacy. It was a really beautiful video and was extremely exciting to see because I reconginzed many of the places that I saw on the video, I even recognized some of the MC sisters and patients. Volunteer day was a blast!
The MC sisters treated us to dinner, there was a resturant cateoring company that was there that donated for our volunteer day and made an AMAZING meal for us! IT was probably the best meal I've had since I've been here in India! We had glass plates, and metal spoons! Chicken, french fries, stew, soup, dinner rolls, and Ice cream for desert! It was truly an amazing treat! It was fun seeing alot of the MC sisters there. The MC sisters I work with at Daya Dan was also there and so was my student Mongol and some of the other children at Daya Dan that are usually downstairs was at the volunteer day. It was really special to be apart of. I'm really glad that I moved my traveling time a week back so I can have the opportunity to make it to this.

Today I worked at Daya Dan and was in the class room. I taught Megha today and she's such a doll! I gave her addition problems and she had to figure out one problem than the other problem than write down was it greater than, less than or equal ( >, <, =). It was a good lesson for her. We also worked on words that rhymed.


Well, I think this will be my last blog for a week and a half. I'm traveling to Darjeling for 3 days, Varinasi for 3, and to Prui for 2 days. So I won't be able to blog for awhile. It's my week out of the 2 months of relaxing, so pray for my safe travels and I'll inform you all about it when I get back! Take care and God bless!